The Borrowers (1997)

12/05/1997 (GB) • 1h 27m

Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Family

Little People. Big Trouble. Lots of fun.

Overview

The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.

Top Billed Cast

John Goodman

Ocious P. Potter

Mark Williams

Exterminator Jeff

Jim Broadbent

Pod Clock

Celia Imrie

Homily Clock

Flora Newbigin

Arrietty Clock

Tom Felton

Peagreen Clock

Bradley Pierce

Pete Lender

Aden Gillett

Joe Lender


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$29,000,000.00

Revenue

$22,619,699.00

Keywords

dwarf

household

lawyer

based on children's book

little people

child's point of view

real estate

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